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    Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, FRS (19 June 1809 – 11 August 1885) was an English poet, patron of literature and a politician who strongly...
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    Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes was born at 16 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, London, the only son of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, by his...
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    Milnes, 1st Baronet (see Milnes baronets). Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885) Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, 2nd Baron Houghton (1858–1945)...
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  • and conductor Fred Milnes (1878–1946), English footballer Richard Slater Milnes (1759–1804), English politician Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton...
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  • 1848 in Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats by Richard Monckton Milnes. When I have fears that I may cease to be     Before my pen has...
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  • Richard Milnes may refer to: Richard Slater Milnes (1759–1804), English heir, landowner and politician Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885)...
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    co-owner of the house, strenuously denied the story, printed in Richard Monckton Milnes' 1848 biography of Keats, dismissing it as 'pure delusion'. My...
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    George Monckton-Arundell, 6th Viscount Galway, and his wife and first cousin Henrietta Maria, daughter of Robert Pemberton Milnes and sister of Richard Monckton...
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    smile. Her most persistent suitor was the politician and poet Richard Monckton Milnes, but after a nine-year courtship, she rejected him, convinced that...
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  • ascribed when printed to George Colman the Younger. Its author was Richard Monckton Milnes. Henderson places it in The Library Illustrative of Social Progress...
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    Pemberton Milnes of Fryston Hall, son of Richard Slater Milnes, in 1808. Hon. Charlotte Penelope Monckton-Arundell (d. 1806) Hon. Frances Jane Monckton-Arundell...
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    Richard Milnes, uncle of the first Baronet, was the great-great-grandfather of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton. Sir Robert Shore Milnes,...
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    family from Richard to his son Robert Pemberton Milnes (1784-1858), MP for Pontefract. From him it descended to Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton...
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    Happy Parliament Francis Drake (1696–1771), antiquary and surgeon Robert Monckton, (1726–1782), MP for Pontefract and British army general John Smyth (1748–1811)...
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    Pope-Hennessy in The Flight of Youth, it was the generosity of Richard Monckton Milnes that made the marriage possible. Brontë, meanwhile, was increasingly...
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    superstition. Only a few years earlier, in his 1840 sonnet on the Abbey, Richard Monckton Milnes had deplored the religious philistinism which had "wreckt this...
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  • Marvell John Masefield Eugene Mason George Meredith Alice Meynell Richard Monckton Milnes Susan Mitchell Harold Monro Lewis Morris John Spencer Muirhead...
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    vigorous and long-serving presence in later Victorian times was Richard Monckton-Milnes, later Lord Houghton, a friend of Florence Nightingale. Charles...
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  • Exhibition in 1862. Milnes was born in Tickhill (now in South Yorkshire). His father, a stonemason, and a cousin of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton...
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    was part of a house party at Fryston Hall, Yorkshire given by Richard Monckton Milnes – a persistent suitor of Florence Nightingale – that included also...
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    by public subscription in Kensal Green Cemetery was unveiled by Richard Monckton Milnes. The monument was originally surmounted by a bronze bust of Hood...
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  • promulgated a conservative and romantic species of social Toryism. Richard Monckton Milnes is credited with coining the name Young England, a name which suggested...
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    and strong affinities to Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keble and Richard Monckton Milnes. In 1841 he resigned his living to become curate to Samuel Wilberforce...
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    Henrietta Maria Milnes at St George's, Hanover Square. She was a daughter of Robert Pemberton and sister of Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton...
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  • falsely attributed to George Colman the Younger: probably by Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton. Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote poetry on...
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    United Kingdom Preceded by Richard Monckton Milnes William Overend Member for Pontefract 1860 – 1885 With: Richard Monckton Milnes 1860–1863 Samuel Waterhouse...
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    Pontefract Castle (category Richard II of England)
    castle ruin in the town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. King Richard II is thought to have died there. It was the site of a series of famous...
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    and ascribed to Colman falsely; the true author may have been Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton. Canadian author John Glassco maintained and...
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  • Conservative statesman Sir Philip Miles (1825–1888), politician Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885), politician, man of letters Charles...
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    by a new one which amended, rather than repealed, the 1833 Act. Richard Monckton Milnes, a Radical MP warned the government during the debate on clause...
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